Best Staples Black Friday 2018 deals:

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The office superstore has to make up with breadth for being unable to offer prices as dirt cheap as other retailers. For instance, its cheapest Chromebook special is a $149.99 HP with Intel Celeron processor, 4GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and 11.6-inch screen — $50 more than the Samsung Chromebook Walmart is offering. It does have a 14-inch Acer Chromebook on sale, however, for $199.99 if you desire a bigger screen.

But not everyone wants the lowest-priced system, and for those who need more — be it RAM, storage, processing power, or better display — Staples has some intriguing options. For instance, for under $400, there’s an HP Pavilion laptop with Core i5, 8GB of RAM, terabyte hard drive, and 14-inch display for $369.99, or for the same price, a Pavilion desktop tower with a Core i5 and terabyte hard drive but with 12 gigs of memory. For $499.99, you can step up to a Pavilion notebook with a Core i7 CPU, 16GB of Intel Optane memory to complement the terabyte hard drive, and a 15.6-inch full HD display.

Not many laptops have adopted AMD’s Ryzen mobile chips yet, but Staples does have a couple of them as part of its Black Friday plans. There’s a 15.6-inch Acer Aspire with Ryzen 3 processor, 5 gigs of RAM, and terabyte hard drive for $319.99, and a Lenovo 330s that includes a Ryzen 7, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and 15.6-inch full HD screen for $469.99.

If you prefer the flexibility of a 2-in-1 portable, there’s an Acer 13.3-inch Chromebook with MediaTek processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and 32 gigs of storage for $309.99, or a Core i3-based Acer Spin 3 with 8GB of RAM, 256GB solid-state drive, 15.6-inch full HD touchscreen, and integrated Amazon Alexa for $469.99. Fore more power (and cash), there’s an HP Pavilion x360 with Core i7, 8GB of memory, terabyte hard drive, and 15.6-inch full HD touch-enabled display for $729.99.

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